admiredly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

admired +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

admiredly (comparative more admiredly, superlative most admiredly)

  1. (archaic) So as to be admired.
    • 1872, Edward White Benson (Archbishop of Canterbury), Work; friendship; worship: 3 sermons (page 20)
      Never has our University said to her departing sons, “Now you are ready to live admiredly, you can converse, and speak, and write.” Always, I think, have her science and her philology pointed onwards.